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27. Introduction of Useful Plants and of Injurious Weeds 210; 622 



a. Introduction of Useful Plants from England, 1610-1625, 



by Seeds and Cuttings 210; 622 



b. Useful Plants brought from the Bahamas, 1616-25 212; 624 



c. Later Introductions from England, etc . 213 ; 625 



d. Accidental Introduction of Injurious Weeds 214; 626 



e. List of Principal Introduced Fruit Trees and Fruits 215 ; 627 



28. Principal Introduced Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrubs.. 231; 643 



a. Shade Trees and Ornamental Trees 231 ; 643 



b. Principal Introduced Ornamental Shrubs ; Hedge Plants 240 ; 652 



c. Prominent Climbing Plants or Vines 246 ; 658 



29. Extermination or Partial Extermination of Native Birds 249 ; 661 



a. Character of the Original Native Avifauna 249 ; 661 



&. Egg-birds or Terns (Sterna, sev. sp.) ; early extermina- 

 tion by man __ 254; 666 



c. Cahow ; its History ; Original Abundance and rapid 



extermination 256 ; 668 



d. Known Characteristics of the Cahow (now extinct) 264; 676 



e. Pimlico or Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus Auduboni 



Finsh.)... 265; 677 



/. Tropic Bird ; Long-tail ; Boatswain Bird ; (Phaeton fla- 



virostris) 267 ; 679 



g. Herons and Egrets 268; 680 



h. American Crow (Corvus Americanus) 269; 681 



30. Partial Extermination of the Whales 270 ; 682 



a. Hump-back Whale (Megaptera boops or M. nodosa). Figure 270 ; 682 



b. Fin-back Whale (Balcenoptera, sp.). Figures 276; 688 



c. Cape Whale ; Black Whale or Biscay Eight Whale 



(Balcena glaeialis Bon.). Figure 276 ; 688 



d. Sperm Whale ; Spermaceti Whale ; Trunk Whale, or 



Cachalot. Figure 277; 689 



31. Extermination of Breeding Sea Turtles; the Lizard 278; 690 



a . Former Abundance of Sea Turtles 278 ; 690 



1>. Green Turtle (Ghelonia mydas). Figure 280 ; 692 



e. Hawksbill ; Caret ; Tortoise-shell Turtle (Caretta imbri- 



eata). Figure 282; 694 



d. Loggerhead (Thalassochelys caretta). Figure 283; 695 



e. Leather-back ; Trunk Turtle ; Leather Turtle (Sphargis 



coriacea). Figure 285 ; 697 



f. Bermuda Lizard (Eumeces longirostris Cope). Figure.. 285 



32. Decrease of certain Fishes and Shellfish 266 



a. Former Abundance of Fishes. Figures 286 



b. Eockfishes, Groupers, Hogfish, etc. Figures 289 



e. Bermuda Lobster (Panulirus argus). Figure 293 



d. Land Crabs (Gecareinus lateralis Frein., etc.). Figure. 294 



e. Devil Fish ; Octopus ; Scuttle (Octopus rugosus Bosc.) . . 295 



/. Gastropods: Whelks ; Conchs ; etc. 296 



;/. Bivalves: Scallops; Oysters; Mussels, etc 297 



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